WSWS on Pearl

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Max wrote:
>>Imagine losing a relative in an automobile accident,
>>and hearing somebody say, well it was inevitable since 50,000
>>people die in automobiles every year.  Drowning a victim
>>into a 'pattern' is tantamount to cancelling his/her
>>identity.
>
>If your relative died in an automobile accident, you'd want to know
>the causes of the accident.  The causes may turn out to include
>defective products -- the defects in turn caused by class struggles:
>
>*****   The Firestone recall: new evidence implicates Firestone and
>Ford in tire failures
>********************************
>
>Yes I would, but I would particularly not want to be regaled
>with bullshit that purported to explain by way of offering
>platitudes that utterly failed to do so.   To wit, in this
>case there is zero information to support the premise that
>DP was murdered because the CIA employs journalists. --mbs

E.g.

*****   [WSJ spokesman Steven] Goldstein said he believes the 
abductors may have "made a mistake" in capturing Pearl, noting that 
writing on the photos indicated they think Pearl is a CIA spy.

<http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/01/28/pakistan.missing.journalist/> 
*****

Why is what CNN and other corporate media can discuss with aplomb 
unmentionable on LBO-talk?
-- 
Yoshie

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